Joint Mathematics Meetings AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, January 14, 2012 00:29:10

Joint Mathematics Meetings
John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center, Boston Marriott Hotel, and Boston Sheraton Hotel, Boston, MA
January 4-7, 2012 (Wednesday - Saturday)
Meeting #1077

Associate secretaries:

Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu
Gerard A Venema, MAA venema@calvin.edu

• Thursday January 5, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Combinatorial Geometry of Polytopes, I
  Room 102, Hynes
  Organizers:
  Egon Schulte, Northeastern University schulte@neu.edu
  Asia Ivic Weiss, York University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Semiregular Polytopes and Amalgamated C-Groups.
    Egon Schulte*, Northeastern University
    (1077-05-801)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Resent developments about Colorful Polytopes.
    Deborah Oliveros*, UNAM
    Gabriela Araujo, UNAM.
    Hubard Isabel, UNAM.
    Egon Schulte, Northeastern University
    (1077-51-1483)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Theory and examples of ghost symmetry.
    David Richter*, Western Michigan University
    (1077-51-544)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Strengthening Fary's Theorem: Convex and Star-Shaped Realizations of Polyhedral Complexes.
    Stedman M. Wilson*, University of California, Los Angeles
    Igor Pak, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1077-52-878)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Constructing self-Petrie and self-dual covers of regular polyhedra.
    Gabe Cunningham*, Northeastern University
    (1077-52-814)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The width of 4-prismatoids.
    Francisco Santos, Universidad de Cantabria
    Tamon Stephen*, Simon Fraser University
    Hugh Thomas, University of New Brunswick
    (1077-52-1301)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Two-Orbit Polytopes with Two Facet Types.
    Ilanit Helfand*, Northeastern University
    (1077-05-811)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Discussion
• Thursday January 5, 2012, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Combinatorial Geometry of Polytopes, II
  Room 101, Hynes
  Organizers:
  Egon Schulte, Northeastern University schulte@neu.edu
  Asia Ivic Weiss, York University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Euler flag enumeration of Whitney stratified spaces.
    Richard Ehrenborg, University of Kentucky
    Mark Goresky, Institute for Advanced Study
    Margaret Readdy*, University of Kentucky
    (1077-05-896)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Combinatorial constructions of polytopes.
    T. Bisztriczky*, University of Calgary
    (1077-52-917)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Matrices associated with polar dual pairs of polytopes.
    Jim Lawrence*, George Mason University
    (1077-52-1841)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Deformations of surfaces and convex polytopes.
    Satyan L Devadoss*, Williams College
    (1077-52-284)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Minkowski length of 2D and 3D lattice polytopes.
    Olivia Beckwith, Harvey Mudd College
    Matthew Grimm, UCSD
    Jenya Soprunova*, Kent State University
    Bradley Weaver, Grove City College
    (1077-52-945)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Graphs of Polytopes.
    Margaret M Bayer*, University of Kansas
    William Espenschied, University of Kansas
    (1077-05-2099)
• Friday January 6, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Combinatorial Geometry of Polytopes, III
  Room 101, Hynes
  Organizers:
  Egon Schulte, Northeastern University schulte@neu.edu
  Asia Ivic Weiss, York University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Symmetries of Equivelar Toroids.
    Asia Ivic Weiss*, York University
    Isabel Hubard, UNAM Mexioc City, Mexico
    Alen Orbanic, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
    Daniel Pellicer, UNAM Morelia, Mexico
    (1077-52-614)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Equivelar 4-twistoids.
    Mark Mixer*, York University
    Isabel Hubard, UNAM
    Daniel Pellicer, UNAM
    Asia Ivic Weiss, York University
    (1077-52-2512)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Projective Polytopes.
    Javier Bracho*, UNAM
    (1077-52-2607)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Non-Triangulatable Polyhedra.
    B. Carrigan*, Auburn University
    (1077-52-1643)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Law of Aboav--Weaire and its analogue in three dimensions.
    Richard Ehrenborg*, University of Kentucky
    Menachem Lazar, Institute for Advanced Study
    Jeremy Mason, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    (1077-52-866)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Vertex-transitive polyhedral maps and actions of discrete groups on surfaces.
    Roman Nedela*, Matej Bel University, Banska Bystrica, Slovak rep.
    (1077-05-852)